Duane Bailey
Senior Software Engineer at Capital One
McLean, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolDuane Bailey is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of professional experience, currently building at Capital One after a strong track record across startups and established teams like Atlassian. He prefers backend systems, developer tools, and local apps, and is known as an “observability detective” and team unblocker who reads more code than he writes to deeply understand complex systems. Duane’s toolkit spans AWS, Heroku, Ruby on Rails, Rust, TypeScript, GraphQL/gRPC, and a wide variety of databases and infra tools, while his personal projects favor Rust, Python, Scheme, and tinkering with tiny, constrained hardware. He excels at reviving and hardening legacy codebases, leading features from prototype to production, and shipping small programs that deliver outsized impact. Outside work he studies history and languages, which informs a human-centered perspective on technology and collaboration.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstComputer Science, Computer Science at William & Mary
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Github contributions (5)
duane/ctex
Feb 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:138 commits in 1 year 8 months
duane/xscm2
May 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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